In which I inform Joe Walsh he is an Embarrassing Asshat

This morning I got up early to go to a local Republican Party meeting to see what it was like, to hear Joe Walsh speak, and to hopefully ask him questions and tell him my displeasure with how he is representing us.

No, despite my last post, I really am much too polite of a person to be disruptive in my social discourse. This doesn't mean I don't make myself heard, or that anyone would be wondering where I stand on something, just that I am not going to be a jerk about it.

Just about everyone there was old, as in, over 55. Everyone except one of the judge-candidates was very white.

Fully a fifth of the people there were running for office of some sort or another and looking for petition signers--mostly judges and committee people, and one state representative. A couple of the judge-candidates I quite liked, and will look into supporting.

MoveOn.org tried to organize something last minute, and everyone that showed up was civil. It was a very crowded room. Oh, so typically, during the question and answer period the republican chair person decided only to give the microphone to known republicans and ignored anyone else in the room he did not know.

This is not free speech, but he explained to me later, they had had some ugly meetings in earlier months, and he was scared things could get ugly again if he let any of the new people talk. You mean, use tea party tactics? Shocking!

However, I politely let him know that I would have been civil, and showed my civility, and he should let me speak in the future. He agreed and thanked me for introducing myself. You see? Civil.

Afterwards, Joe did go outside to the front of the storefront and shook hands and talked to people. I held up my sign which read "Your Job is to listen to us and represent us, not to make stupid sound bites for Cable News." So if I didn't get to talk to him, he would know a tiny bit of what I was there for.

But, I did get to talk to him. I had time for one recent specific item. It's all I had time for. I told him that his making a big announcement the other day that he not going to go to the president's speech because Obama is idiotic was not only disrespectful to the office of the President of the United States, it also was disrespectful to all of us in the 8th district. He was basically saying that he was not going to listen, and he was not going to be there to represent us. He does not think before he spouts off, or even if he does, it's embarrassing to have him representing us. I told him, 'respectfully,' that when he acts like that, he really looks like an asshat. That basically he is saying, "I'm Joe Walsh, I'm not going to the speech because my penis is so big!" (Well, boo, civility lost, but I said it with a smile.)
His reply was to smile and say,"I didn't say that! What would happen if I said that?" I assured him I was speaking euphemistically, and he acknowledged that.

He asked me if I thought Obama was smart. I said of course! Did I think Michelle Bachman was smart? "NO!" Did I think Sarah Palin is smarter than Obama? "GOD no. No. But she may be wilier."

"Well, then 'respectully' you see that we live in two different worlds. I think Sarah Palin is smarter than Barack Obama."

Jesus, he's not kidding. We are really from way different worlds. I think his is called "Bizarro."

Then it was time for him to leave, and that was that.

There are so many reasons to dislike and reproach this man--he's a deadbeat dad, anti-gay, a foreign policy ignoramus, anti-environment, a liar about small business, he's a tea party hypocrite, and he's just plain embarrassing. But today, for just one of his most recent embarrassments to our district, I personally got to tell him that he is an embarrassment, and that was in some wee measure, good.